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SBAL PRESS lUNiTED TATES EDVVARD J. BROOKS, OF EAST ORANGE, NEVV JEBSEY, ASSIGNOB TO E. J'

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BROOKS St COMPANY, OF NEV YORK, N. Y.

SEAL-PRESS.

SPECIFICA'I'ION forming part of Letters Patent No. 371,873, datel October 18, 1887.

v Application tiled August 24, 1886. Serial No. 211,732. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWARD J. Bsools, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of East Orange, in the State of New Jersey, have invented a certain new and useful Improvement in Seal-Presses, of which the following is a specification. v

This invention is additional to certain of my improvements in seal-presses heretofore patented, particularly those sct forth in Letters Patent No. 254,601, dated March 7, 1882, and No.`,3l9,387, dated June 2, 1885.

It relates, with said improvement in sealprcsses patcnted June 2, 1885, to rollerli presses, and, primarily, with that patented March 7, 1882, to tthamnier presses.

The distinguishing objects of the present in- Vention are, first, to render the press wholly springless and of .superior simplicity, and, secondly, to adaptits rolling segment to hold the leverhandles open7' by its own gra vity.

This invention consists in certain novel combinations of peculiarly constructed and arranged parts, whereby the above-named 'objects are effected, as hereinafter described and claimed.

A sheetof drawings accompanies this specification as part thereof.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a side elevation ofmy improved Seal-press open, illustrating the pressing operation. Fig. 2 is a longitudinal section thereof closed. Fig. 3 is a back view thereof; and Fig. 4 is a side view of the closed press, illustrating its use as a hammer.

Like letters of reference indicate like parts in the several figures.

This improved Seal-press compriscs a recessed head, A, a springless rotary bedroller, B, an oscillating rolling segment, O, a pair of pivot-pins, D E, byxrhich said r'oller is pivoted within the upper part of said head and said segment within its lower part, a pair of lever-handles, F F2, projecting` rigidly from said segment and said head, respectively, and adapted to be grasped 'by the 'fingers and thumb of one hand, a gage-stop, G, to arrest the leaden disk of a seal, S, between the rollerV B and the peripheral rolling surface r of the segment O,in proper position for the beginning 50 of the pressing operation, as illustrated in Fig.

1, and a hammer projection7 H, adapting the press to be used as a hammer for tacking on car-cards, as illustrated by Fig. 4.

The head A, lever-handle F2, stop-gage G, and hammer projcction H are parts of one malleable-iron casting,the segment O and leverhandle F constitute another, and the press is `thus forined complete in five pieces.

By pivoting the segment in the lower part of the head it may be of less relative radial length for given work, and the press is thus rendered very compact and symmetrical when closed, as seen in Fig. 4. It provides, also, for limiting` the movement of the segment in both directions by stops integral with the headcasting. By so pivoting said segment, and at the same time constructing the parts, as represented, so that it overbalances the leverhandle F integral therewith, and so that its center of gravity is behind the planem, Fig. 1, of its pivotal axis when the open press is held upright, I provide for keeping the press open to receive the seal-disks by the gravity of the segmentitself. By merely extending the segment rearward it may be so rendered self-opening. In the construction represented it is opened by tipping the upper end of the press backward, as represented by arrow o, Fig. 2. (It may of course be closed when open and empty by a reverse movement.)

The segment O is supported when the press is open, as shown in Fig. l, by a stop surface, 8, formed at the back of the head A by the hammer projection H, as best seen inFig. 2, while at the same time said hammcr projection is effectively formcd and located for its primary work. (See Fig. 2.) For the latter it is brought into position by turningthe press in the hand, the Iever-handle F2 being now grasped. by the fingers instead of the leverhandle F. Finally, the head A is constructed with a concave' face, a, and a convex back, b, as shown, so as to provide for locating the gage-stop G within the outline of the head, and at the same time to facilitate inserting the Seal S, the reentrant curve of said face a being readily so made tangential to that of the .face of the roller B, asl represented, without injuriously weakening' the head.

A seal disk being in position within the IOO head A of the open press, as shown in Fig. 1, the lever-handle F is closed upon the leverhandle F2, as represented by the arrow p, and the Seal-disk is thus rolled out between the segment O and roller B, so as to securely fasten ,the seai, and stamped with distinguishingmark or lettering, if desired, by means of diecharacters in the roiling surface 1", and by the same movement is ejected from the press, as represented by the arrow e, Fig. 1,whioh completes the operation.

The press may, if preferred, be held' to re-v ceive the sea1-disk with its head in horizontal position, face npward, so as to stamp the face of the Seal-disk.

I have shown and described various details of construction which are preferred, for the reasons set forth; but I do not limit my olaims, hereinafter stated, to any such details, except as speeified in the respective clailns.

Havingthus deseribed mysaid improvement in seal-presses, I claim as my invention and desi-re to patent under this specificati0n-- 1. A springless roller-press composed of an oscillating rolling segment, a rotary bed-roller, a recessed head within which the same are pivoted, and a pair of lever-handles projecting rigidly from said head and said segment, re-' spectiveiy, suhstantially as herein specified.

2. In a rollerseal-press, the combination of a recessed head having a lever-handle projeeting rigidly from one end thereof, and a rolling segment pivoted in its handle end and having a lever-handle which projects rigidiytherefrom and is overbalanced by the segment proper, the center of gravity of said segment being in rear of the plane of its axis when the press is open, substantially as herein specified.

EDWARD J. BROOKS.

Witnesses:

HENRY L. O. WENK, JOHN Jos. HALLEY. 

